The Church is handed back to the parishioners in time for Christmas

Just in time for the church to be cleaned and decorated for the Christmas carol service 

Having completed the program of school visits to Ovington the leaders and helpers decided to celebrate the project.

The work begins again in January, when the preparation for the combined school concerts begins.  

Having a huge amount of wonderful work that has built up during the project so far. Leaders and helpers set about how to display it.

The Church collage depicting the seasons took great thought. 

Deciding how to mount the excellent written work was a challenge.

Everybody was pleased with the outcome, knowing that it will appear in several exhibitions.

After completion of the restoration of the tower the scaffolding came down, the new drainage system was started. Installed on the West side of the Church it is expected to make a dramatic improvement of the church fabric.

 

Internal restoration of the church is making good progress, with cracks above the East window repaired.

Like wise the internal cracks in the tower have been repaired, know the tower restoration has been completed

The foundations and tiling have been completed, ready for the font to be re-positioned

The continued success of our HLF Schools Project is not only due to the continued support of our qualified helpers, but also the support of commercial organisations. Over five hundred school children have visited the Ovington project so far, and with the very generous support of Tesco supermarket every pupil has been provided with fresh fruit. On a weekly basis fruit and refreshments are collected from the local Watton supermarket and given the pupils in their break times

The fresh fruit manager Jacob and his colleagues have been extremely supportive and helpful in aiding the success of the project.

Jacob made us very much aware it is the company’s policy to support this type on community project, especially as it was including most of the local schools. He said this helps them to encourage healthy eating in children via our project, as well as when children visit their stores. Thank you Tesco

The Weather continues to be good, the church roof gets its repairs started.

The old lead removed and eventually replaced with better non-lead materials.

Villages visit the Church

People of the village where invited  to see the progress of the Church restoration under the guidance of the architect Ruth Blackman

Wonderful examples of the work of the children that have visited and taken part in the first term of "Our Community-Our Church "schools project. Exploring the church, storytelling, looking at nature and interpreting what they have seen with art.